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Title

The graced horizon : nature and grace in modern Catholic thought / Stephen J. Duffy.

Author

Duffy, Stephen.

Publication

Collegeville, Minn. : Liturgical Press, c1992.

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Description

247 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

In the present century a renaissance in Roman Catholic theology sparked a renewed interest in the theology of nature and grace. Without an understanding of the heated debate that raged in mid-century over the nature/grace dialectic, Vatican Council II is not wholly intelligible, for with this dispute Catholicism turned a corner. The theology of nature and grace that emerged from the debate furnished a theoretical foundation for exorcising the dualisms that for so long had bedeviled Catholic life and thought, and thus legitimated Catholicism's departure from its ghetto and its new openness to the world. The quotidian and the religious were now seen to reside not in separate enclaves, but to suffuse each other. The plain truth of the humdrum was transformed into poetry, and poetry into revelation. This historical and interpretative study chronicles the mid-century debate and analyzes the contributions of the major players and a cast of representative figures.

Series Statement

Theology and life series ; v. 37

Uniform Title

Theology and life series ; v. 37.

Subjects

• Nature > Religious aspects > Catholic Church > History of doctrines > 20th century
• Catholic Church Doctrines > History
• Nature > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines > 20th century
• Grace (Theology) > History of doctrines > 20th century

Note

• Includes index.
• "A Michael Glazier book"

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• 1. The problem of nature and grace: The issues and terms of the debate -- I. Nature and grace in historical and ecumenical perspective -- II. The interiority and gratuity of the Christian vocation -- III. Divergent theories: a typology -- IV. The Christian and the world -- V. The possibility of a graceless world -- 2. The reemergence of the problem of nature and grace in the twentieth century -- I. Historical antecedents -- II. The critique of the post-tridentine theology of nature and grace -- III. The intervention of the magisterium: Humani Generis -- 3. Grace as the heart's desire: Henri de Lubac's Surnaturel -- I. A transcendence that is immanent -- II. An attack on the hypothesis of pure nature -- III. Reflections on de Lubac's Surnaturel -- 4. The interiority of the invitation of grace: Karl Rahner's supernatural existential -- I. A break with the "standard view": dualism and extrinsicism -- II. The unacceptability of the position of the anonymous "D" --^
• III. The supernatural existential -- IV. Reflections on Rahner's existential -- 5. The absolute gratuity of grace: Hans Urs von Balthasar's gratuity "from above" -- I. Gratuity "from above" -- II. Six theses on nature and grace -- III. Reflections on von Balthasar's nuanced gratuity -- 6. Grace as intersubjective relationship: the personalism of Juan Alfaro and Edward Schillebeeckx -- I. Gratia Supponit Personam: grace as interpersonal bond -- II. Reflections on Alfaro's personalism -- III. A retrieval from Aquinas: Max Seckler and the instinct of faith -- IV. The real situation of humanity: Schillebeeckx's critique of Seckler -- V. Reflections on Schillebeeckx's critique -- 7. The supernatural as process: reframing the problem -- I. The case against scholasticism -- II. A philosophical renewal to ground theological renewal -- III. Grace in an evolving universe -- IV. Reflections on the supernatural as process -- 8. The graced horizon: the gratuity and universality of grace --^
• I. A changed perspective on gratuity -- II. Negative and positive formulations of gratuity -- III. Karl Rahner's graced horizon -- IV. Critiques of Rahner's technical and synthetic theologies of nature and grace -- Epilogue: grace as humanization: retrospect and prospect -- I. Secular and sacred intertwined -- II. The cosmic dimension of grace.

ISBN

0814657052

LCCN

^^^92000474^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library